Example sentences of "and [adj] and [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , she was never able really to influence developments in the way that Britain should , by being right in the middle of events , and being seen as a joint , willing partner in Europe — not a country that is always ducking and diving and looking for ways of putting party and even narrow national interests before those of the wider European concept . |
| 3 | Here is the appalling Bliss family in their anyone-for-tennis country home : actress mother , artistic father , precocious children — all of them vain and selfish and looking for amusement and romantic intrigue from their weekend guests . |
| 4 | It is not part of our code to stand helpless and alone and wait for death . |
| 5 | Lingens was privately prosecuted by Kreisky , and convicted and fined for defamation . |